Advance Skills for Project Management Profession Training & Project Title: Advance Skills for Project Management

Profession The training will focus on developing advance skills in the participants that are need of the project management profession. This training will enable participants to deliver project effectively while ensuring all the stakeholders are in-line with the project happening. It ll focus on the tools available for project management domain and will enable participants to use it effectively for their day to day interaction with stakeholders. After the completion of training, students are required to prepare a project. Guidelines will be provided by the instructor during the training sessions. y Project management tools o Focusing on the available tools to facilitate project management practices. It ll also focus on comparison of the tools. o For example, Microsoft Project, Primavera, and open source project management tools Project management practices o Focusing on the available project management standards used widely across the world. A comparison will enable participants to choose the right standard for project managers o For example, OPM 3, Prince 2 Data collection and data presentation in project management o Focusing on the data collection methods, tools along with data analysis / presentation for determining troubled areas of projects and planning effective actions to resolve those. o For example, SPSS tool Managing high impact projects o In organization, different projects carry different value and thus needs different attention. This module will help identifying high impact projects and will enable participants to develop skills to manage high impact projects. Techniques for handling delays in projects o Delays in projects are very common challenge. As per survey, more than 50% projects are delayed. This module will focus on identifying delays proactively and take necessary actions as per industry standard & recognized practices. o Fast Tracking Method o Crashing Method

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Advance Skills for Project Management Profession Training & Project

Managing projects spread across boundaries o This module will focus on project management techniques that are essential for managing projects that involves stake holders / project teams that reside across multiple countries. Managing virtual teams in project o This module will focus on team management skills and techniques that are essential for managing team that is spread over different countries and cultures. Effectively utilizing project management tools for key project skills o Negotiating in projects  This module will focus on identifying convincing facts from project through available tools. These facts will then be presented in a way to negotiate effectively. o Presenting project facts  This module will focus on enabling project managers to develop key skills of collecting different facts and presenting them in the most effective manner to the stake holders. o Industry knowledge  This module will enable project managers to learn the skills of developing industry knowledge of the relevant projects and then apply that knowledge to deliver a successful project that is beneficial for the underlying organization / institute.

Training Method: The training cannot cover all the tools / methodologies mentioned. However, to give a practical knowledge to the participants, following tools / methodologies will be used in training: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Project: Students will be required to prepare a one page project proposal which should be submitted for approval before the training is over. Student will be given a framework on which he would complete his project. This project will be evaluated for final grading. Microsoft Project (tool for project management activities) Regression (through Microsoft Excel or SPSS) to perform data quality analysis Microsoft office for preparing & delivering necessary reports / presentations Team activities to reinforce and sharpen the skills mentioned in this training Case studies to understand industry problems and discuss their effective solutions

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